| Joseph | |
|---|---|
| Gender | Male |
| Meaning | "The Lord will increase/add" |
| Origin | Hebrew |
| Related names | Joe, Joey |
| Wikipedia articles | All pages beginning with Joseph |
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Joseph is a name originating from Hebrew, recorded in the Hebrew Bible, as יוֹסֵף, Standard Hebrew Yosef, Tiberian Hebrew and Aramaic Yôsēp̄. In Arabic, including in the Qur'an, the name is spelled يوسف or Yūsuf. The name can be translated from Hebrew as signifying "The Lord will increase/add". This variant of the name is used mostly in English and French-speaking countries. Some diminutives of Joseph include: Joe, Joey and Jo. In nowadays-Hebrew this name is very common, especially in the version "Yosi". The name Joseph has enjoyed significant popularity in its many forms in numerous countries. In the Old Testament, Joseph is Jacob's eleventh son and Rachel's first. In the New Testament, Joseph is the husband of the virgin Mary . In the New Testament as well there is another Joseph, Joseph of Arimathea, a secret disciple of Jesus who supplied the tomb in which Jesus was buried and is often identified in tradition as the Rich Young Ruler.
Other language variants
- Jozef - Albanian, Dutch, Slovak
- Հովսեփ (Hovsep') - Armenian
- Xosé - Asturian, Galician
- Yusif, Yusuf, Usub - Azeri
- Joseba - Basque
- Josepe - Basque
- Йосиф - Bulgarian
- Josep, Pep - Catalan
- 约瑟 - Chinese simplified
- 約瑟 - Chinese Traditional
- Josip - Croatian
- Bepo - (Dalmatia) Croatian
- Josef - Czech, Danish, German, Norwegian, Swedish
- Joe - (Shortened) English
- Joosef - Finnish
- Seosamh - Gaelic/Irish
- იოსებ (Ioseb) - Georgian
- ዮሰፍ (Yosef) - Ge'ez and other Ethiopian Semitic languages
- Ιώσηπος (Iōsepos) - Greek
- Ιωσήφ (Iosēph) - Greek
- József - Hungarian
- Józsi - (Shortened) Hungarian
- Jósef - Icelandic
- Jósep - Icelandic
- Giüsèp, Pèp - Western Lombard
- ジョセフ - Japanese
- Jezups - Latgalian
- Iosephus - Latin (also spelled Josephus)
- Jazeps - Latvian
- Joosef - Low German
- Giuseppe & Beppe - Italian (a nickname for people with this given name is Geppetto)
- Juozapas, Juozas - Lithuanian
- Ouseph, Ousep - Malayalam
- Ġużeppi & Ġużè & Żeppi & Peppi - Maltese
- Hohepa - Māori
- Józef - Polish
- José - Portuguese
- Zé - (Shortened, nickname) Portuguese
- Иосиф (Iosif) - Russian
- Осип (Osip) - Russian
- Iosif - Romanian
- Soship- Salish (French derived version of the the word using Salish vowles closely related brought by French Canadian missionaries)
- José, Pepe - (Hose) - Spanish
- Јосиф (Josif) - Serbian
- Jožef - Slovene
- Йосип - (Josyph) - Ukrainian
- Giuse, Giô-sép - Vietnamese
- Joseff - Welsh
